Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 13:18:51 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS DOWN Message-ID: <464CB8AB.6050404@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <46482AD2.7010700@fer.hr> References: <20070512153532.GQ21795@elvis.mu.org> <63984.1178992555@critter.freebsd.dk> <f25m78$ik$2@sea.gmane.org> <20070513215442.GZ21795@elvis.mu.org> <46478C9A.9050807@fer.hr> <86lkfryjds.fsf@dwp.des.no> <46482AD2.7010700@fer.hr>
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Ivan Voras wrote:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>
>> It is wrong of the PHP authors to assume that all the world is GNU /
>> Linux.
>
> Yes.
>
>> I see no reason not vindicate their mistakes.
>
> I do: these days I need to heavily justify using FreeBSD instead of
> Linux, and "the applications you want to run don't actually work on
> FreeBSD" is not a nice thing to say.
It depends on your audience.
> I feel that nowadays it's not a contest in popularity, it's damage
> control phase.
Another way to look at this is that a good portion of the existing
FreeBSD userbase relies on our higher standards for things like this,
and to break faith with them would be a bad thing.
We are not interested in making FreeBSD more popular as a primary
goal, we're interested in making it better as a primary goal, which
will end up making it more popular.
Doug
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